Francis Collins’s Covid Confession

Scientists during the pandemic had to act fast on little information, but they shouldn’t have participated in moralistic bullying and propaganda.

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Francis Collins speaks at the 2022 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., May 2, 2022.

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The public-health officials are getting around to admitting the fallibility of public-health officials.

The former head of the National Institutes of Health during the pandemic and current science adviser to President Biden, Francis Collins, has noted that he and his colleagues demonstrated an “unfortunate” narrow-mindedness.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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